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title: "Rishi Ahluwalia - Associate Vice President Head Engineering in Mumbai | Tal"
description: "Meet Rishi Ahluwalia, Director of Engineering at Dream11 | Building for Scale | Distributed Sytems based in Mumbai."
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# Rishi Ahluwalia on Tal

## Headline

Director of Engineering at Dream11 \| Building for Scale \| Distributed Sytems

## About

I’m a Director of Engineering with experience leading multi\-team backend and frontend organizations to deliver scalable, reliable, and customer\-impacting products\. I focus on building high\-performing engineering orgs by combining strong technical judgment with clear execution, thoughtful org design, and a culture of ownership\. I work closely with Product, Design, and Business leaders to translate strategy into predictable delivery and measurable outcomes\. With a background in distributed systems and platform engineering, I guide architectural decisions around scalability, reliability, and long\-term maintainability—while empowering engineering managers and tech leads to own execution\.

## Location

Mumbai

## Work experience

Associate Vice President Head Engineering at upGrad, Jul 2026 \- Present · 1 mo, Mumbai/Bengaluru

Director of Engineering at Dream11, Jul 2025 \- Jul 2026 · 1 y, On\-site

Engineering Manager at Dream11, Mar 2023 \- Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos, On\-site

Software Development Engineer III at Dream11, Jul 2021 \- Mar 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

softwar development engineer II at SIXT Research & Development India, Mar 2018 \- Feb 2020 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at Practo, Apr 2017 \- Oct 2017 · 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Software Engineer at Practo, Jan 2016 \- Mar 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer 1 at Cleartrip\.com, Feb 2015 \- Jan 2016 · 1 yr, Greater Bengaluru Area

SDE at Amazon, May 2013 \- Feb 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(BE\), Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

10th and 12th, Guru Har Rai Academy

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